What is cause and effect?

Literally, it is the cause and effect, but from the point of view of the monk, it is a bond, a test of enlightenment.

As the saying goes, what you sow, you get what you reap.

If you plant a seed in the ground today, it will bear fruit the next day.

Gu Changqing received this water ghost that day, and many branches will be born on his daily cultivation road because of the water ghost.

Cultivating the Tao is about nature and perfection, and it pays attention to having no foundation and no roots.

If a person has no fetters, has no desires, and is independent of the universe, then that person has truly attained enlightenment.

But where in the world is there who is not bound?

Therefore, this bonding cause and effect is what must be resolved on the path of cultivation, and this is the test of the sermon.

Having said so much, it means that Gu Changqing must avenge the water ghost.

That's cause and effect.

Gu Changqing lay on the bed, looked at the Taoist scriptures for a while, and quickly fell asleep.

Early the next morning, another layman who had studied Taoism in Taiyiguan came to the Taoist temple with a meal.

This layman is named Xu Hanshan, and Gu Changqing is generally called Uncle Shan.

Xu Hanshan is forty years old this year, and he is a villager of Xiaowang Village at the foot of Mount Emei, and he has been learning Taoism for forty-three years, but he has no Taoist heart, and he can't be a Taoist priest in the end.

He has been to all the Taoist temples in Emei County recently, and even to the Guozijian in Beijing, all of which have turned him away without exception.

One is because he doesn't have a Dao mind, and the other is because he's too old.

Generally speaking, a person who learns the Tao is basically qualitative before the age of twenty.

People who do not have a Dao Heart before the age of 20 will not be able to have a Dao Heart in their lifetime, and even if they have the opportunity to have a Dao Heart, the achievements in this life are nothing more.

Who would take one of those people?

Xu Hanshan traveled for many years and finally returned to Emei County.

Just when he was disheartened, the Taiyi Guan Guan Master found him in person and said that he could come to the Guan Li to be a layman.

This made Xu Hanshan grateful to Dade, and since then he has been a layman in Taiyiguan.

In order to repay the inexplicable real person, Xu Hanshan also contracted Taiyiguan's food.

He prepares two meals a day at home and then sends them to Guanli.

In the past few years, the wind and rain have been blowing, and there has not been a day of slacking off.

At the beginning, when Gu Changqing learned about this, he always thought that this was an inexplicable calculation, and after receiving Xu Hanshan, Taiyiguan's food was guaranteed.

But later I learned that the inexplicable real person would pay Xu Hanshan a lot of food every month, which made Gu Changqing a little embarrassed.

Since then, I have really admired the inexplicable real person.

Xu Hanshan is a down-and-out person, his ancestors still have savings left, and he is also more bold in taking action against a few people in Taiyiguan.

It is said to be a fast meal, but in fact it is no different from the food in the restaurant.

Gu Changqing and Xu Hanshan have a better relationship, probably because they both have one thing in common, that is, they have the perseverance and perseverance to learn the Tao.

Both of them were people who sought the Tao wholeheartedly, and never gave up even if they did not have a Dao heart.

Although Taiyiguan has Xu Hanshan to send two meals a day, Gu Changqing has not eaten in the temple all day, after all, he is just a layman, and he has not paid the money to enter the Guanguan Dao.

Let him rub the rice, and his face can't get by.

However, sometimes Xu Hanshan is very enthusiastic, and when he sends food to the temple, he always calls him to eat with Gu Changqing when he meets him.

It's the same today.

Gu Changqing was called to the main hall to eat together.

He Yong was still on duty in the hall, and the inexplicable real person and Ma Taiping were still in the county and did not come back.

The three of them first worshiped Emperor Zhenwu, and then divided their seats and began to eat.

While eating, Xu Hanshan said to Gu Changqing: "I heard Senior Brother Ma say that Senior Brother Gu has a Dao heart?"

"Yes, it's luck. ”

"You're only sixteen, aren't you?"

"Well, it's a full sixteen by December. ”

Xu Hanshan nodded and said: "That's a great joy, I had a Dao heart before the age of twenty, and I have a lot to do in the future." ”

"Don't be too happy," He Yong said coldly, "It's still sixteen years old, what kind of climate can it be?"

After looking at the two of them, he said again: "Look at Wan Jianhao, who studied Taoism in Emei, he had a Dao heart at the age of six, but unfortunately it was only a low-grade Dao heart, and now it is not stuck in the eighth grade, and it is not up or down." ”

Wan Jianhao is the eldest son of the Wan family and is very famous in the entire Emei County.

He gave birth to the Dao Heart at the age of six, and Emei personally sent someone down the mountain to put it into the door wall, but unfortunately he was only a lower Dao Heart, and in the past 20 years, he has only reached the eighth grade.

Xu Hanshan nodded and said, "Then Senior Brother Ren Yi may have a bright future, high-grade Dao Heart, that is rare for decades." ”

Speaking of this, He Yong's eyebrows immediately danced.

"Needless to say, the high-grade Dao Heart is ranked the top in the entire Emei County, at the beginning, the Dao Gong Division personally sent a purple-clothed envoy to greet him, intending to be included in the Dao Qi Division for cultivation, and then the Lingzhi Master of Emei deigned to go down the mountain and intercept the person to the Dao Gong Division. ”

"Think about it, what kind of identity is the Venerable Master of Spiritual Wisdom? He actually went to the Dao Gong Division to pick up people, from here you can see how great Senior Brother Ren will be in the future, right?"

The Venerable Master is a well-known figure in Emei County.

He is an elder of Emei, and he was already a second-grade Taoist thirty years ago, and it is rumored that the emperor personally recruited him into the court as the crown prince and young master.

The Venerable Master refused to enter the court on the grounds that the court was dim.

The emperor was furious and prepared to raise an army to attack Emei, but was finally advised by the six Shangshu to give up.

What is the identity of the six books?

That was the official position of the second grade of the dynasty, and the lowest of them were all second-grade, and they actually jointly guaranteed the spiritual master.

This shows how powerful the Master of Wisdom is.

This incident caused a great sensation at the time, and from then on, the reputation of the Master of Wisdom began to spread.

Ren Yi was able to let the Master of Wisdom go out in person, so you can imagine how promising he really is.

Xu Hanshan sighed again and again: "Senior Brother Ren has also been in Guanli for many years, why did he suddenly have a Dao heart? ”

"Hmph, who can say this kind of thing clearly? Dao Heart is ethereal, and it pays attention to casualness, don't you see that the Gu Senior Brother in front of you also grew a Dao Heart overnight?"

When Gu Changqing heard this, he thought to himself: "My Dao heart didn't grow out of thin air, it cost a thousand mana!"

After eating, Gu Changqing said goodbye to the two, and he wanted to go to Hujiagou again.

The third time he came to Hujiagou, Gu Changqing did not hide, he entered the village very generously, and met villagers who went to the fields to do farm work along the way, and he even greeted them very friendly.

There are not many villagers in Hujiagou, less than 200 people, and when Gu Changqing first came to Hujiagou to subdue the water ghosts, they had all seen Gu Changqing's methods, so they were also very impressed by Gu Changqing.

After all, they did good things for Hujiagou, and these villagers chatted with Gu Changqing very enthusiastically.

"Do you remember the water ghosts that made trouble in the Xiaohu River before?"

Gu Changqing said to the three villagers carrying hoes.

"Why don't you remember? That water ghost made us Hujiagou scared for half a month. ”

"Fortunately, it was the Taoist who made the move, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. ”